What are mistakes product managers make when trying to get buy in for their roadmap that end up damaging stakeholder relationships?
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Atlassian Head of Product Management • 1y
Here are some of the common mistakes I've seen (and done!) PMs make that results in not getting buy-in for your roadmapNot aligning on the outcome explicitly - What is th...
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Walmart Sr Director II, Product Management - Marketing Technology • 3y
It seems all too easy to NOT get roadmap buy-in. Sometimes, it can feel like the default answer is always "No" at first, and despite all the work you have done, you are g...
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Shopify VP of Product • 4y
The biggest mistake I will mention here is not getting stakeholder buy-in. A lot of times we make assumptions about what people want and do not take the time ahead of to ...
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From personal experience, I've made a couple mistakes that I can share:Not doing enough research or having answers to pushback readily available (this makes you look weak...
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BILL Director, Product Management (Data, AI, DevEx, Identity) | Formerly Twitter/X • 1y
I have noticed that PMs who do not have a solid proposal or data backed research, they try to push through their roadmap by backing it based on the buy in from upper mana...
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Semarchy Chief Product Officer | Formerly Flexera, Snow Software, SolarWinds, AT&T, Microsoft • 1y
It's crucial to ensure you’ve identified and engaged with stakeholders (including your own engineering team) correctly, to mitigate the risk of damaging relationships. He...
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OEConnection Head of Global Product Operations • 2y
Not Understanding and/or Aligning OKRs If you are operating against different and even competing OKRs then your roadmap will never get buy in. This issue creates the cond...
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